I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.

Your choices become your directions the moment you start to implement them. When you make choices and you don’t implement them, your choices may be the best ever, but the most useless.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

I'm always hungry. I want to be the best.

I don't believe in natural science.

God, I hate my voice! Everyone thinks I'm a female, probably... I am actually a male!

It was good and nothing good is ever lost.